SECTION TWO - PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS TO DISCIPLES - Part 3

This appeal is one that I
make to all in my group of disciples. In all of you are limitations, hindrances
and certain obstacles to progress. Were it not so, you would be liberated souls
and not upon some division of the Path of Approach and under my tuition, as now
you are. The immediacy of surrounding [151] need
and of hierarchical request for help in world work should galvanise you into a
renewed and sustained effort—emancipating you from the lethargy into which it
is so easy to lapse. Disciples are prone to two things (as are all aspirants)
and these tendencies they should face with courage and clear vision:

1. Lethargy or the failure to
use the advice and information available for practical, experimental use.

2. Self-centredness—in some
subtle or obvious form.

You will place yourself, I
know, under those who, through lethargy, fail to achieve the utmost possible. I
would point out to you that though you may have this liability in a physical or
emotional form, you have not got it mentally. You are among those who
take the kingdom of heaven by violence and enter therein. B.S.D. needs this
mental activity in a dynamic form, even if he recognises not the truth of my
remarks.

If you will ponder upon the
verse which I am now going to give you for consideration, illumination may pour
in. These verses do not refer to your recognised lethargy—of that you are aware
and with it I need not deal. These occult phrases deal with things basic and
oft unrecognised. If recognised, they are not adequately appraised. Here are
the verses:

"One star shone forth
within the dark blue vault of heaven. Then another and still another could be
seen until around the star were many shining points. The circle of the stars
revolved and kept its place and darkness was around on every hand. Each star
within its tiny orbit kept its place and slow revolved. Its contacts with the
circle's edge proved adequate.

"`There is but one great
circle,' came a voice, `not many little spheres. Some stars are small and time
must feed their flame. Some stars are suns and shed their light on every hand.
Seek out a sun and feed its life. Shed forth your rays and live.'"

July 1937

BROTHER OF OLD:

In dealing with the rays
which control and dominate your life I would remind you that it is your first
ray mind that gives you undoubted mental influence. This is felt most strongly [152] by all who contact you. Being definitely in touch with
your soul (which is in its turn under second ray influence) you have a combination
of forces which is definitely useful, both to yourself and others. Your mental
body is governed by the first ray.

Your astral body is as
definitely a second ray aggregation of energies and hence the influence of love
which you carry everywhere with you. I would remind you, however, that when the
soul and the astral body are both on the same ray, there is presented always an
engrossing problem of balance. There will be, in such cases, a tendency to a
lack of balance in the total effect of the equipment and with this—as well you
know—you have constantly to deal.

The physical body is
of the seventh ray type but it is so controlled by your fourth ray personality
that—in a most peculiar sense—it has little life of its own. It is negative to
an amazing extent and this again constitutes a definite problem. Your rays,
therefore, are:

1. The soul or egoic ray—the
second Ray of Love-Wisdom.

2. The personality ray—the
fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict.

3. The ray of the mind—the
first Ray of Power or Will.

4. The ray of the astral
body—the second Ray of Love-Wisdom.

5. The ray of the physical
body—the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order or Magic.

I have an idea that the above
statement will carry much illumination to you and that it will enable you to
make real progress.

January 1938

MY BROTHER:

The past year has seen the
many changes which have taken place in the relationship between your soul and
your personality. These have now worked through on to the physical plane and
have brought about definite outer changes in your life and circumstance. The
uprooting to which you have been subjected should be a cheering indication to
you of the emergence into a fuller life of service of a much better equipped
worker—[153] better, because he is a freer and less clogged channel
for soul force. You have now the use of a renewed and more forceful personality
in outer manifestation. Upon this thought I would ask you to ponder and
carefully reflect. If you do this, you will be enabled wisely to make certain
needed changes and adjustments which have been your inner realised goal for
some long time and which can be more easily brought about in unison with the
many other adjustments which change of environment have made possible.

A period of intensified
service lies ahead of you, beginning in September of this year. This, my
brother, gives you an interlude wherein to think with clarity, to subject
yourself to self-imposed discipline, and to heighten your magnetic vibration.
Your task is not to go forth into the difficult places of the earth but to work
from your own centre through the magnetic radiance of your soul. This you have
always done and I ask of you no new thing but only an increased magnetic
radiance, based upon an inner freedom which makes possible the relinquishing of
outer shackles and chains, thus gaining a liberty which will extend through
every department of your being.

In connection with the
problem of service and the finding of right cooperators, I might endorse your
own opinion that up till now no true well-balanced cooperator has appeared. You
are asking yourself (and me) if this lack of cooperators is your own fault and
if there is anything you could do yourself which would attract the right person
and establish a fruitful and enduring fellowship in the work. I would reply to
this subjective questioning of yours in the following terms: Decisive action,
carried forward and persisted in for the needed period of time is, for you—as
yet—only in the formative stage. I refer not to your power to speak with
decision to those you seek to help—physically and psychologically—for that you
can always succeed in doing. I refer to the ability always to act with a wise,
clean-cut decision in relation to yourself and your own immediate problems. You
are learning to do this and the next two years will see you making much
advance in this matter, but you are only at the beginning of your training.
Always has your problem been that of the true second ray disciple. This
involves the ability to identify yourself with others, their [154] ideas and reactions and you thereby limit and hinder
your own activity from the indecision which arises from too much understanding
and too great a sympathy with the personality problems and the form side of
expression. When you can stand with greater firmness in spiritual being and
when you can work more definitely and consciously with the soul aspect and less
engrossingly with the personality, your life will simplify and certain of your
unique personality problems will disappear. Then and only then will your soul
call to you those who can be your true cooperators.

One hint I will here give
you: Look not for those who are potential spiritually but who are not
yet expressive, but look for those mature souls who do not need your help but
who seek your collaboration as you seek theirs. You have sought for your
collaborators among those you help, but there you will not find them.

It was this idea I had in
mind when I told you in an earlier communication to "seek out a sun and
feed its life." I gave you no suggestion to do more than let time take
care of those stars whose size is small and their radiance limited. One of the
difficult things for humble aspirants to grasp is that peculiar moment in their
life history when they must shift into the realm of discriminating work.
This fits them to work as we, the teachers upon the inner side, have learned to
work. We work not with all who would demand our aid but leave the "lesser
lights" to be handled by our disciples and the lesser teachers. We confine
ourselves to training those stronger souls, those more potent people whose
lives can be "focussed in radiance" and whose response and effort
warrant our endeavour. There are many gathered around you, my brother, to whom
you have given much strength and teaching and whose tendency is to confuse
acquiescence in your teaching and acceptance of your strength for the more
difficult task of achieving divine self-confidence and innate, not borrowed,
strength. Let such people go and—standing as a radiant centre of
magnetic force—draw to yourself cooperators in the Plan and not consumers of
your energy. Go through the lists of those you have sought to help and
relinquish them to their own souls. Mind not their criticism but dedicate
yourself to more important work—a work [155] which
will appear when you have freed yourself from the clinging hands of
well-meaning but weak-minded aspirants. Then, around the star which is your soul
will be many "shining points." There have been times when I have been
hard put to it to find you because of the obscuration brought about by those
who surround and well nigh smother you as they cling to you. Stand Free....
Having pointed this out, brother of old, go forward towards the goal and the
vision with confidence, sure judgment and the knowledge that I, who for years
(longer than you know) have watched over your progress, am standing by with
understanding and with confidence in you.

January 1939

You will note, my brother,
how you reverse the problem of B.S.D. because your personality ray, your soul
ray and your astral ray are all along the same line of force—the line of the
second ray. I have already pointed out to you the difficult nature of your
problem which is that most subtle one of the right balancing of energies. You
have no third ray energy in you at all (the energy of the ray of the intellect)
and this in spite of the fact of your physical constitution. It accounts for
your intense feeling that you have no racial relationship to the Jews at all in
spite of the fact that you are of the Hebrew race. This is a true feeling, and
the only thing which relates you to the Jewish race is the fact that your
mental body is on the first ray which is the same as the soul of Judaea. The
soul knows no distinctions or differences and on soul levels no problem of any
kind exists—except the problem of understanding love. Of this you know
much.

Your soul ray focusses itself
in and through your astral body and your personality ray does the same. Hence
your problem and hence the facility with which you can relate the soul and
personality rays and can carry through their blended energies to the heart
centre. The increasing use of this line of force is one of your practical
demonstrations of the future. The second thing which you need to do is to take
these energies of the soul and of the personality, add to them the energy of
the [156] heart centre and then learn how to carry all three to
the head centre and there blend them with the power of your first ray mind.
This first ray mental power, you must learn to bring definitely down into the
head centre by an act of the creative imagination and hold it steadily
there....

I would ask you—as far as you
possibly can—to insulate yourself from fear and from the effect of the world
situation and its allied problems. The future for you is planned and you can
take the right steps through the power of your illumined mind. I would ask you
to carry forward this insulation along the line of love, using the ancient
method which has been called "the wheel of living fire which burns not but
ever heals." This method is occult and safe and constitutes no barrier to
relationships as does the building of a separative wall. The method is as
follows:

See before you a wheel of
fire with seven spokes. See it immediately before your eyes. Then, by an act of
the creative imagination, see yourself standing in the centre at the hub of the
wheel; there regard yourself as if you were that hub. From that central
position, send out the seven streams of living love, radiating upon the world.
When you do this you serve and are, at the same time, completely protected.
This exercise can be come instantaneous and effective. It generates a protective
force and at the same time makes you a living centre of light and love.

Be not distressed, my
brother, but in calmness and in peace pursue your way. There is no life, at
this time, without its difficult lot to bear, and what matter what it is? Love
all. Serve all. Preserve your mental integrity and be not influenced by those
whose hearts are bitter or whose tongues are cruel. Life is initiation and for
this you are prepared. The crises in the life of the soul work out along
certain lines as major initiations. I am here giving you a hint. For this too
you are, as you know, being prepared. I stand behind you with understanding and
with strength. I give you my blessing, my brother.

NOTE: Under the most
trying conditions, this disciple is steadily carrying on and working with K.H.
and serving with the Tibetan's group.

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To J. W. K-P.

November 1931

BROTHER OF MINE:

I would conjure you to face
the future with joy and optimism. Courage you always have but joy you lack.
With you, as with F.C.D., much of the physical plane activity is hampered by
etheric devitalisation, though the causes producing the existing condition differ.
During the past years, I have many times conveyed to you a message the
summation of which lies in the emphasis I lay on steadfastness in meditation.
Etheric vitalisation lies in meditation where you are concerned and the
bringing in of energy to your physical body through its instrumentality. Diet,
fresh air and freedom from concern all aid the process but the main cure for
you and the source of success in all your work lies in your persistence in
meditation and your contemplative endurance.

The conservation of energy is
wise, yet you have untold reserves upon which to draw and as yet you use them
not as you might. As before I have told you, you make not adequate use of the
meditation period and your physical body suffers in consequence and therefore
your work. There is much to be done and through meditation you can accomplish
much. You might ask me, my brother, how to utilise the meditation period so as
to benefit from it physically. The physical body will take care of itself when
the source of supply lies open to use. A modification—to be made by yourself—of
the attached meditation would be in order for you, omitting the detail of the
stage of ascent but visualising the inflow of energy to the centres in the
etheric body and the vitalisation, above all, of the heart and the throat
centres. This should be carried forward in a rapid and definite manner and the
rest of the meditation period should be given to group work, and to a
consideration of the plans to be followed in the unfolding work of the larger
group to which this group belongs.

You will comprehend what I
mean, brother of mine, when I repeat to you the ancient formula:

"Out of the lotus in the
head springs the flower of bliss.

Its earliest form is joy.

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Out of the lotus in the heart
springs the flower of love.

Its earliest indication,
wisdom is.

Out of the lotus in the
throat emerges the flower of living forms.

The earliest sign is
understanding of the Plan."

Joy, wisdom and the Plan!
These are for you the three points which must be matured. For B.S.W. it was
wisdom, strength and beauty. For you, these other three. You two are very
close—closer than either of you have realised. Weakness for you both lies in
the failure of one or other of the manifestations of power to flourish. When B.
S. W. knows the true significance of beauty and you of joy, release and fuller
service will be yours.

June 1933

I have the same word for you
again, my brother. I say to you again and yet again, "Let the joy
of the Lord be your strength." There is much to be done and in many ways.
Steps have been taken to fit you for what you have to do. Go forward as at
present. Let the Plan absorb you but remember at the same time that it works
out step by step and that the true helper of the Plan is he who visions it as
it may be in the cycle of the life but who also sees the small and immediate
step ahead. Therein lies the difference between the mystic and the occultist.

You are in much better
physical condition and your registration of joy must work out also in happiness
and eventually in bliss. For you, too, today I have a mantram which may
be of service:

"Joy settles as a bird
within the heart but has winged its way from the secret place within the head.
I am that bird of joy. Therefore, with joy I serve."

You will know whereof I speak
when I say that your personality detachment must develop into a deeper
attachment to the souls within the forms. Thus understanding grows. There is a
vice of detachment as well as a vice of attachment and the true servant of the
Plan seeks the middle way. You have a sphere of potent usefulness within my
group. You give stability and [159] you
carry the gift of assured belief. Each member of my group has been chosen for
what he can contribute to the whole....

June 1934

BROTHER OF MINE:

I would like at this time to
make the comment—one of major importance to you—that you are now entering upon
the work for which you incarnated. The members of the New Group of World
Servers—e'en when they work without mental realisation (not as you do, for you
know somewhat of the Plan)—are, nevertheless, working "under
impression," as it is called. Their main duty, and the duty to which their
souls call them, is to preserve an inner sensitivity. This they do in the
majority of cases and, where there is not your background of esoteric
knowledge, their intense interest in their work makes them one-pointed and
dedicated to their task. Therefore, all personality reactions are subordinated
to the work in hand and the lower man presents no impediments to that
impression. With you, as with all the members of my group, there is a
realisation of the Plan and an inner determination to cooperate and this
facilitates the work. For you, therefore, in the immediate future, two things
are required. Your sensitivity to inner impression must grow and increase; your
will also must be more dynamically used.

These two points I have in
view as I consider the nature of the meditation which I must assign to you. The
condition of increased sensitivity is dependent upon a perfected alignment and
the other upon the right seizure of opportunity, upon directed skill in action
and upon a sustained egoic one-pointedness. Therefore, there must be a
preservation of such characteristics—with persistence—throughout the day. Your
morning meditation should be of a brief and yet potent character and can best
be described by the following words: Alignment. Dedication. Directed thought.
Recognition of the Plan. Clear-cut realisation. Steady Will. For you,
meditation is an assuming of an attitude and its preservation throughout the
work of the day. My brother, we can translate all the above into four stages [160] which definitely relate to your life theme, if
I may so call it. Begin always with the fourth or final stage and work through
to the first:

1. You live with the idea and
you constructively embody it. This is being or realisation.

2. The purpose becomes your
purpose and your will is, therefore, the will of the Plan. Towards this higher
will, your personal will is steadily directed.

3. This "qualifies"
your life in the three worlds and you become potently characterised by the
quality of the unfolding Plan. Upon this quality you must meditate.

4. Realisation of the nature,
the purpose and the quality of the Plan to which it is your purpose to
contribute. This conditions the form which your work will take.

Your task is to work with the
Law of Supply. The demand is already there. Your work is to contribute to the
success of the New Group of World Servers and to the spreading of the truth and
to do this, as ever, with joy. As the demands of the work increase, you
must learn to preserve your physical poise and good health, by due attention to
food and exercise. You must learn to live increasingly the dual life of the
disciple—a life of outer activity and of inner sensitivity. You have but little
to fear, for much is already accomplished upon the inner planes. The seizure of
opportunity, the recognition of opening doors and skill in activity—to these
direct your attention. Your work for the New Group of World Servers is now
beginning. There will not be asked of you more than you can accomplish.
Use the instructions I give you and strengthen your link with me, for that is
for you also an opening door of increased usefulness. Cultivate love for your
fellowmen or rather, my brother and my friend, the externalising of that love
which you have in full measure. In this will lie the recognition of those who constitute
the world group. Here D.R.S. is of service to you for he throws a light on
people.

In quietness and in
confidence go forward along the Lighted Way and with expectancy as your
keynote. Preserve a readiness to handle all that may eventuate. The link
between you and your Master strengthens daily.

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January 1935

BROTHER OF MINE:

You face the three most
strenuous years of your life and by the time you are forty-nine years old, your
work will have fallen into such definite lines that you will see the Plan for
future service with much greater clarity and will have acquired the desired
momentum. Your work ahead lies now in cooperating with those who are the New
Group of World Servers and in organising the financing through which much of
their work may become possible. The work as it takes shape on the physical
plane must be directed towards the spiritual uplift of the thinking people of
the world in the first case and in the second place through them will come the
uplift of the masses.

Your work must be largely
selective and in the main educational. It will also involve the finding and the
training of those who can cooperate. Workers increasingly will be drawn to
Great Britain and to the continent of Europe. From the United States of
America, the teaching must go out. But Europe is the field for the educating of
the world in the ideas of a true world unity and for the wise presentation of
the Plan. From that continent can the inspiration go forth to the East and to
the West.

Go forward into this work
with sure courage and with no sense of pressure. Blend the wise methods of the
present organisations with the vision of the newer types of work. This is a
spiritual work in which you are engaged and it has educational objectives which
have for their goal the dissemination of those principles which must govern
world-living and world attitudes during the coming New Age. In the presentation
of the work which the New Group of World Servers can do, certain definite and
immediate possible programmes can be indicated, such as the educating of public
opinion in the principle of non-separativeness. But to do this, much meditation
and much clear thinking will be involved.... The technique to be followed and
the methods employed to arouse interest and to evoke the needed support are for
Western disciples and workers to decide and not for me, your Oriental brother.
I can but stimulate your soul to clarity of perception, to wise vision, to [162] true understanding and to right planning. The rest of
the work and the materialising of the project lies in your hands and with those
who respond to the ideas presented.

As regards your personal
development and training, brother of old, I can but enjoin upon you a
consideration of the meditation work I gave in my last instruction to you and a
renewed effort to meet its demands. You have no idea how a fresh access of
power will come to you could you but discipline yourself into giving a dynamic
twenty minutes each morning—prior to descending to the day's routine.... This
has for years been your problem. Yet this scant twenty minutes, taken each
morning with regularity at the hour of 8 A.M. would give you not only the joy
you need in your strenuous service, the power and insight you require to
stabilise your work, but also a larger measure of physical strength. Your body
nature is so constituted that it responds to spiritual healing more than do the
bodies of the majority.

July 1935

I have but little to say to
you, my brother, as last year I wrote to you in detail and outlined to you the
work of the coming years. I change not that work or my suggestions, for if I
did so there would be no true synthesis in the output of this group. I am
working on a prearranged Plan of my own which was the result of several years'
close observation of the members of my group. I have seen no reason to change
my original ideas or plan, because you have all developed as I foresaw, though
one or two of the group are learning more slowly than the rest whilst one
member of my group has unexpectedly leaped ahead.

Your work is being steadily
consolidated and, as you lay the foundations deep and begin the superstructure,
you must guard the original idea and the initial thoughtform from all possible
deterioration. The difficulty of the spiritual builders and the architects of
the Plan only really begins when that which they are constructing becomes
public property and subject, therefore, to criticism and outer help. Then the
task of preserving the original purity of idea and of purpose becomes onerous.

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Be prepared for expansion of
the work. But expand according to plan and not according to emergency, for you
are building in collaboration with the inner Builders and the two structures
must be counterparts. Ponder on this, yet be not rigid on non-essentials.

Take the tensity of your
inner pressure off the work for awhile, my brother. The momentum at this time
is adequate to carry the plans forward. Therefore, hold steady, brood deeply
but drive not.

January 1936

BROTHER OF MINE:

Every perfecting organism
must have in it those elements of life and power which embody the energy of the
three aspects of divinity. It must likewise have those force channels through
which the other four types of divine energy may express themselves. This may be
provided by those disciples who are on each of the seven rays indicated, or by
those disciples who can, through their purity and consecration, carry any type
of energy which the Hierarchy may choose to project into an organism through
their agency. The New Group of World Servers is a rapidly developing organism
which must be preserved from undue crystallisation and over-organisation. It
must, however, express itself through all the seven ways of divine
manifestation. You and your associates have—if you so choose and because we
have offered you the opportunity—much to do with the right organisation of the
outer expression of the New Group of World Servers. After the initial,
preparatory period is over, what has been done subjectively and objectively
will be so definite in its effects that the future lines of emergence and the
policies and activities will be relatively stable and unalterable. This is a
responsibility which must be faced.

The task is, however,
complicated because the New Group of World Servers has in it so many aspirants
and some disciples of whom you can know nothing; these are also working
actively and under the new impulses, frequently without being aware of their
affiliation as cooperators.

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It is necessary, therefore,
for you and other members of my group of workers to hold yourselves sensitive
to the new factors and to the people whose task it is—equally with the
group to which you belong and recognise—to precipitate the new group
activities, the new attitudes and the new techniques. Hence, again, the
necessity for a trained inner attentiveness, not only to the voice of your own
soul, to my voice and to group impression but also to the voices of those who
will be attracted to the group whom you recognise by similarity of purpose, of
method and of attitude. This, my brother, is not easy.

This year should see you
achieving a greater inner freedom and a clearer spirit of true liberation which
will express itself in an attitude of real, and not assumed, joy and peace and
a less weighed down spirit of responsibility. It must be remembered that
this is a group responsibility. Your task is the attaining of a keener and more
sensitive reaction to subtle and spiritual impression and to the group impulses
of the New Group of World Servers.... As you go forward with this task, the
right method of approach to those working in the New Group of World Servers
will appear, the needed doors will open and the correct way of evoking interest
will easily become apparent. The work upon the inner planes is already done and
only the awakening of the brain and of the objective mind remains to be
accomplished in connection with these individuals.

One other point remains for
me to touch upon. Your orientation to the Plan is right, and you have wisdom
and strength. Conserve, however, your strength and remember that right
relaxation is just as much a part of the service you can render as the
strenuous, unremitting work which leads to enforced and perhaps
inconvenient interludes of gaining physical strength. The steady, unbroken,
inner push, carried forward through right organisation of the outer factors of
time and physical strength is essential. It is not possible, unless there is a
balanced life of service, of recreation and again of service.

June 1936

BROTHER OF OLD:

You are in process of
gathering together your forces for another cycle of activity in connection with
the New Group [165]
of World Servers. Forget not, all
creative processes proceed with a cyclic rhythm. The rhythm set by the New
Group of World Servers is a three year cycle and to this rhythm you will find
yourself conforming. The end of one such cycle came in May, 1936. Another
towards which we will proceed in a mounting crescendo of work and of success
will be in May, 1939. The third will come in May, 1942. Have these dates
carefully in mind and thus lay your plans for the future. Thus will you be
working with the law and along the lines of least resistance. Make each three
year cycle conform to the rhythm of creation. In the first year, lay your
emphasis upon the activity of the manifesting principle, using that which
appears and with which you have to work. In the second year, let the clarity
and the quality of the note to be sounded by the manifesting form appear and be
heard. In the third year, behind the form and expressing itself through the
quality, let the livingness and the work of the indwelling life emerge for all to
see. Bear this in mind as you consolidate the work. The keynote of the first
year's work is consolidation, that of the second year must be expansion whilst
the keynote of the third year must be the making of a definite impact upon the
public consciousness, by the sounding and the emphasising of some one clear
note. If this cyclic measure is kept thus in mind, no serious mistakes will be
made.... The New Group of World Servers must work in these three year cycles
and the foundation of cyclic attainment must be laid. This cyclic rhythm will
release from strain and yet enable the workers in the Group to feel that there
is no failure. It is impossible to do good work where a sense of failure or
lack of attainment is found.

One thing I would like here
to point out and that is that there are many in other countries, scattered all
over the world, who have a close and intimate work to do because they are
actively associated with the New Group of World Servers. They have not yet made
their contact with you or with those in my particular group of disciples. You
must learn, as must the other members of my group, to recognise them. Where
there is a recognition of principles, of impartiality in service and pure
intelligent goodwill, then give freely of your time and help. Hold out the hand
of fellowship. Where there is life and the [166] type
of seed is one, then the same flower will appear throughout the world in all
lands. Naught can alter the expression of the type and the genus of the
manifestation. Bear this in mind.

As for you, my brother, keep
close to your own soul. Walk carefully and guardedly. Tread fearlessly and
joyously in the light of your soul and in the blended light of your group
brothers.

January 1937

BROTHER OF OLD:

With true first ray brevity,
you have replied to certain questions which I have put to you and yet these
replies are—from my point of view—most disclosing. With you, as with F.C.D. and
R.S.U., the main difficulty is lethargy, based on a genuine physical
disability. It is not my intention, therefore, to urge you to a greater
activity but to a greater organisation upon the inner planes and greater
intuitive reflection. This group of disciples has undertaken to do two things:

1. To assist the work of the
New Group of World Servers in linking them, widely and consciously, to the men
of goodwill throughout the world. This has to be done in order to bring in
right and new conditions upon the earth.

2. To find and organise the
needed funds for this task. The last is in many ways the outer expression of
the first, for just as money has been in the past the instrument of men's
selfishness, now it must be the instrument of their goodwill. I commend this to
you as a real thought and so to continue to use it (employing an American
phrase) as a talking point.

The above is simply a
summation of the task immediately ahead of all of you who are seeking to aid in
our work and to this task I urge you and all associated with me. The walls of
difficulty must go down and success must follow effort—the united pressure of
determined souls pushing through to victory in spite of real odds. This united
and definite effort must be carried forward without discouragement or
questioning—with due attention to the time factor and with a sense of urgency.
This will [167]
negate all lost motion and will
permit no opportunity to slide. There are, my brother, many who will give their
cooperation but who, at this time, sidetrack their cooperation, owing to fear
or to the over-emphasis of non-essentials. I refer here to those men of
goodwill who are today aware of the urgency of the Master's work but still hold
back assistance in full measure. There are those also who do not realise the
urgency and are unaware of the immediacy of the Plan or even that there is a
Plan. They, however, when faced with the issue will give.

It is not for me to deal with
this problem, as we shoulder not the responsibilities of the World Servers. I
present it to you, my brother, and to my group, and I throw behind you the
weight of my strength and the stimulation of my love. One-pointed, directed
effort can achieve results in spite of world conditions, misrepresentation by
those who do not understand and the failure of responsive interest on the part
of one's co-disciples—throughout the world or close at hand.

Brace yourself, therefore,
and with the other members of my group push through. Stand steady and do not be
so seriously troubled as to the progress of the work which seems not yet to
move as rapidly as desired. When the movement does come, it will be rapid....

The following three sentences
may aid you in handling your problem and help your progress as a worker:

1. The sense of
responsibility shines forth in flickering flames from every soul which has
sought and found alignment. Fan those flames into a steady fire in every soul
you meet. Ponder on this.

2. The sense of sacrifice
is faintly seen in every soul that loves the Plan. Teach them that sacrifice
must touch the depths of giving and not call forth that which upon the surface
lies or that which can be known. The unseen sacrifice must go with that which
can be seen. Teach this.

3. The sense of
comradeship is surely known by each and all of you but needs the deepening
of service shared. Shew this and draw it forth. The comradeship of burdens
shared, the sense of deep response to need, the comradeship of service
rendered, the urge to sacrifice—teach these to those who seek to work within
the Master's plan and show all three yourself.

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July 1937

Your mental body, my
brother, is upon the fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict. Hence your power
to harmonise, to unify and to comprehend. At the same time (thus indicating
soul purpose), it took a fourth ray mental nature (with its love of harmony
through conflict) to handle the particular task which your soul assigned, and
the undertaking upon which you are engaged in the aiding of the Plan.

Your second ray astral
body greatly facilitates your work, giving you understanding and
harmlessness; your emotions thus do not interfere with your judgment and your
decisions. But the combination of a fourth ray mental body and a second ray
emotional vehicle requires careful watching so as to preserve the first ray
balance as you grow older and tendencies crystallise into habits. The only way
to do this is to deepen and establish the soul contact which (although of the
first ray) is, as you will remember, the first subray of the second ray.

As you have already guessed,
your physical body is on the seventh ray. Hence your Masonic opportunity
and your ability to organise and to rule. I would remind you all that when the
statement is made that the physical body is upon the seventh ray, it means that
the atoms of the brain, in particular, are coloured and motivated by seventh
ray energy. So it is with all the rays upon which a physical vehicle may be
found. This provides a definite opportunity to those so constituted at this
time in connection with the seventh ray, as it is coming into influence so
rapidly. At the same time it provides a problem—that unending problem of the
balancing of forces which is the major task of the initiate or of those in
training for initiation. Viewing you, therefore, as a complete unit, your rays
are:

1. The soul ray—the first Ray
of Power or Will.

2. The personality ray—the
second Ray of Love-Wisdom.

3. The ray of the mind—the
fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict.

4. The ray of the astral
body—the second Ray of Love-Wisdom.

5. The ray of the physical body—the
seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order.

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January 1938

Three words I gave to you, my
friend and brother, in my last communication. They were: Responsibility,
Sacrifice and Comradeship. I urged on you the task of awakening the aspirants
by whom you are surrounded to an understanding of their significance. You
comprehend them yourself, but they must be exemplified, explained and nurtured
in all whom you draw into the circle of group influence as collaborators and
cooperators with the Plan. Responsibility you can shoulder and have always
shouldered. Sacrifice you have always rendered and understood. Your values are
sound on this and you want nothing for the separated self. Comradeship, you are
learning and it is not an easy lesson at any time for first ray souls to master
and express. The littleness of the personalities and the pettiness of
individual points of view are irksome to the server of the Plan who stands,
serene and detached, upon a first ray pinnacle of vision and resultant
comprehension.

I have three points to take
up with you and my message to you is brief. I seek not to impose upon you a
definite meditation, beyond suggesting that, as you face and shoulder an
increasingly wide financial responsibility, you persist in that brooding
meditation in relation to the problem which I gave you a while ago. You are
coming—as a first ray disciple who is proving himself—under a closer
supervision by your Master. My task is now only to stand by. The three points
which I would impress upon you are as follows:

1. Waste not time in backward
looking nor in futile consideration of the wisdom or the non-wisdom of past
undertakings. Go forward with confidence and intensity. Months of focussed and
intense action lie ahead of you and, rightly carried forward, success awaits
you in the gathering of the needed equipment to do the Master's work and aid
the Plan.

2. Handle with care the force
which flows through you as you shift increasingly into the consciousness of
your first ray soul and into a first ray Master's group. See to it that your
second ray personality can rightly deal with that force, blending it with love
and tempering its power with [170] understanding.
The first ray force must deal with circumstance and must not make its
impact upon personalities. It is needed to force issues and determine
results (note that phrase) but not to shatter and to hurt. True
impersonality must be borne in mind and your personality must note its effect
upon other personalities and offset its innate and oft most useful destructive
work.

3. Ponder on joy, happiness,
gaiety and bliss; these release the channels of the inner life and reach—in a
wide circle—many kinds of men. They heal and cleanse the physical body and help
you do your work with little effort, a proper sense of values and a detachment
which is based on love and not isolation.

In closing I would say: I am
not dissatisfied with the work which has been done by you and the workers in
the field but I call you all to deeper understanding and increased activity.

For you, my brother, I have
this word. Let not the glamour of fatigue and of disappointment over world
conditions lead to abortive work. Fight not the glamour which seeks to impose
itself upon you with your first ray indifference—a potent attitude easily
assumed by you as by all first ray types. Fight it by non-recognition and by
complete absorption in the immediate task; I refer to a wise absorption which
neglects no due physical care nor due time for relaxation. The work goes
forward in the world along the correct, indicated inner lines. The disciple who
has achieved a measure of sensitivity to the Whole must learn to discriminate
between aspects of that whole. You are too sensitive to the desire and feeling
aspects of the world personality and the glamour of your own reaction to this.
Learn to register with equal sensitivity the mass of the world idealisms and
aspiring thought; then the glamour of fatigue and of innate disgust will give
place to a keen interest and understanding of the glamour-free disciple.

January 1940

MY BROTHER:

The pressure of the work is
heavy upon you and it still remains. I have no particular instruction to give
you at this time because what has been initiated will achieve its own momentum
and travel towards its inevitable conclusion. I will [171] only add that the effort you are making to meet the
demands of the work which I have outlined, draws forth my approval and—if
persisted in—should prove of prolonged service to humanity. I would ask
you to note the word "prolonged" because you are building for the
future and, in the future, the true significance of accomplishment will be
yours. Proceed, therefore, with patience, with skill in action and with an
unmoved persistence.

In reference to the work of
fusion at which you must arrive in connection with your bodily forces and your
soul energy, I would call your attention to the fact that your soul energy is
focussed in your physical equipment, thus bringing together the energy of your
soul and the force of your seventh ray brain. There is, consequently, a direct
alignment between soul and brain and this must be deepened, understood and
utilised. Your personality energy (which is of the second ray) is focussed in
your fourth ray mind. This leaves your astral body as a unity—by itself, from
our standpoint of consideration—and this is, in your case, as it should be. You
have a powerful astral body of sufficiently poised control to proceed with the
task and the solution of personal relationships, without the undue pressure of
personality reactions. Some day a study will be made of the fact that
practically all reactions are of an astral or emotional nature, except the
reactions of the physical mechanism to the outer tangible environment. This is
not yet sufficiently noted by orthodox psychology. The reactions of the
personality to the soul and of the astral body to the subjective life are of
vital interest to the esotericist.

The fusion must, therefore,
be made between the mind and the brain, each of which expresses one of the two
major energies. That fusion already partially exists. When it is consummated,
the mental goal of harmony through conflict will be superseded by the inflow of
love, working with power through the brain and (incidentally) your general
physical health will speedily improve. How shall this be brought about, my
brother? The first stage is one of real difficulty, particularly to first ray
people. It comes through the power of visualisation. That is why ritual is of
value to such as you and Masonry—being on the first ray and emanating,
consequently, from Shamballa—aids the process of visualisation. It gives colour
and performance [172]
of a tangible kind to inner,
subjective activity. Visualisation is a powerful agent in the evocation of the
creative imagination. Let me here give you a hint. If you use this idea in the
planning of the work which you seek to do for the Hierarchy and for which we
are seeking to hold you responsible, and if you carry into all that work the
ideal of ritual, of rhythm and of energy distribution, you will evoke a
synthetic pattern, a unified procedure and a harmonious working out of the
Plan.

Therefore, I would ask you to
give ten minutes each day to the pictorial visualisation of your entire work
and programme. See each phase of it as a lotus of living beauty, connected with
all the other phases by lines of fiery energy, thus bringing all parts of it
into one whole. All the different phases will form a great unity of light and
love, expressing itself through the will-to-good. Be not side-tracked when
doing this. Use the building energy of your second ray personality and the
seventh ray energy of your brain, because through your brain, your first ray
soul energy is expressing itself. You do not here consciously work as a
soul. You work with as much soul energy as can express itself at any given time
through your brain. If you worked with pure soul energy and from soul levels,
you would bring in too much of the Shamballa force for the delicate structure
with which you are dealing.

Precede all that you do with
a definite effort to bring about the following alignments and in the following
order:

1. The alignment of all
personality forces with the energy of the personality, focussed in the mind
nature. This means an aligned personality with the focus of the attention in
the intellect.

2. The alignment of the
personality with the soul. This means bringing the mind—which is focussing all
the lower energies—into direct relation with the soul.

3. The alignment of soul and
brain. This is brought about by dropping the personality and all its forces out
of your consciousness altogether and relating soul and brain by an act of the
will.

When you have done this, then
swing back into the mind nature and, focussed there, proceed with the work of
visualisation, as I have above suggested. Build your picture stage by stage.

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Go forward with courage, hope
and joy, plus understanding, my brother. Train those who work with you with
painstaking care, for much depends upon them. Remember always that you do not
work alone.

NOTE: This disciple is
still actively engaged in the Tibetan's work.

To R. A. J.

August 1936

MY BROTHER:

The press of work has led to
some delay in my writing my personal instructions to you. I realise, however,
that you have much real patience and hence have felt no sense of pressure.
Those of us who teach from the inner side have usually to deal with two extreme
positions where our disciples are concerned. We have to protect ourselves from
the importunities of those who are spiritually selfish (oft unconsciously) and
over-eager for development and teaching; we have also to stimulate those disciples,
who are slow and cautious and doubtful to a more ready and
"approaching" attitude. Those aspirants and disciples, who stand
ready to be taught when opportunity offers, ought to continue steadfastly with
their work even when apparently there is no inner contact. These disciples
offer no strain to the inner teacher and, in the last analysis, make the most
progress.